Rosicrucian secrets

The alchemists played a tremendous part in the early history of the Rosicrucian Order. While many alchemists were interested in making gold, some were more concerned with the transmutation of human character. European alchemists and Knights Templars, in contact with the Arab civilization at the time of the Crusades, brought much of this wisdom to the West. In Europe the transcendental alchemists?mystics and philosophers?sought to transmute the base elements of human character into the more noble virtues and to release the wisdom of the divine self within the individual.